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(1885–1960). English poet and translator F.S. Flint was a prominent poet of the imagist movement. His best poems reflect the disciplined economy of that school.

Frank Stuart Flint was born on Dec. 19,1885, in London. The son of a commercial traveler, he left school at the age of 13 and worked at a variety of jobs. At 17 he became enthusiastic about poetry after reading the 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats. Two years later he became a civil-service typist and enrolled in a workingman’s night school. He learned French and Latin and eventually mastered 10 languages. After World War I, he rose to become a high official in the Ministry of Labour.

Flint’s first volume of poetry, In the Net of the Stars (1909), was a collection of love lyrics, clearly influenced by Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The same year, he and a group of young poets, dissatisfied with conventional styles, began working to replace traditional rhyme and meter with free verse. Flint’s friendship with the English poet T.E. Hulme and the American poet Ezra Pound helped him to develop further his own distinctive poetic style. His books Cadences (1915) and Otherworld (1925) established him as a leading member of the imagist movement. After the death of his wife in 1920, Flint suddenly stopped writing his own poetry but continued to produce translations, mostly of French works. He died on Feb. 28, 1960, in Berkshire.

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